Douglas A. Hicks

Douglas A. Hicks is author of books: Inequality and Christian Ethics (2000), Religion and the Workplace (2003), With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America (2009)and Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy (2010).

He is Professor of Leadership Studies and Religion at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. He was the founding leader for the Bonner Center for Civic Engagement at the University of Richmond. He served for five years as director and then executive director before returning to the classroom full-time in 2009. Hicks is also president-elect of the Academy of Religious Leadership and serves as co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's section on religion and the social sciences. He is a former president of the Richmond Association of Phi Beta Kappa and is a board member of the Virginia Poverty Law Center.

An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Hicks holds an A.B. degree with honors in economics from Davidson College, an M.Div. degree, summa cum laude, from Duke University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in religion, ethics and economics from Harvard University. During the spring of 2003, he served as visiting assistant professor of religion and society at Harvard Divinity School.

His articles have appeared in The Leadership Quarterly, The Journal of Religious Ethics, World Development and The Journal of Ecumenical Studies.

Works

• "Mr. Obama’s Inauguration". Richmond Times-Dispatch. January 18, 2009. http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/commentary/article/HICKS118_20090116-205911/180619/. 
• "Leadership in a Devout and Diverse City". Richmond Magazine. 2008-12-24. http://www.richmag.com/?articleID=f291b20eb177357ad0e55c47063afb18. 

• Douglas A. Hicks, Mark Valeri (2008). "Global Poverty and Bono's Celebrity Activism". Global Neighbors. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9780802860330. http://books.google.com/?id=i1o5zTmGqcYC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=douglas+hicks. 

Books

• Money Enough: Everyday Practices for Living Faithfully in the Global Economy. Jossey-Bass. February 2010. ISBN 9780787997755. http://books.google.com/?id=uGsvXRnSmEEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=douglas+hicks&cd=10#v=onepage&q=. 

• With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America. Cambridge University Press. February 12, 2009. ISBN 9780195337174. http://books.google.com/?id=5k7_2uCEaLMC&dq=douglas+hicks&printsec=frontcover. 

• Religion and the Workplace. Cambridge University Press. November 17, 2003. ISBN 9780521529600. http://books.google.com/?id=p4V7A8ha_xcC&dq=douglas+hicks&printsec=frontcover. 

• Inequality and Christian Ethics. Cambridge University Press. 2000. ISBN 9780521787543. http://books.google.com/?id=pPH9qxKTPPwC&dq=douglas+hicks&printsec=frontcover. 

Reviews

James MacGregor Burns:

Solidly based in history and attuned to today, Hicks’s book is a realistic guide to how we can positively live and work together. I highly recommend it as a major contribution to an effective leadership.

Benjamin J. Wiles, Emory University, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies:

Religion and the Workplace...looks at how employers can move away from seeing religion as divisive. The book offers 'respectful pluralism' as a guide for employers handling religious diversity and conflict." HRMagazine"...Hicks' book is an important and excellent contribution to a still underdeveloped public debate on religious diversity in the workplace." Comparative Labor law &Policy Journal, Achim Seifert"...an effective tool to discuss moral, political, religious, and spiritual issues in a diverse workplace.^[1]

David DeCosse, Thoelogical Studies:

Douglas Hicks has written an insightful amalgam of a book. This is its strength and weakness. Combining theology, philosophy, social theory, and quantitative economic analysis, he provides for Christian ethics a theoretical and practical approach to the problem of socioeconomic inequality.^[2]

Peter Scott:

Nonetheless, the indisputable achievement of this book is both theological and political: Hicks draws on a range of theological resources to defend a normative Christian position that, in interaction with philosophical approaches, offers a sophisticated affirmation of equality and trenchant critique of inequality. Furthermore, he interprets a wealth of empirical studies to make the point that Christians (with others) need to attend to the values operative within these empirical studies. ^[3]

References

1. ^ http://www.powells.com/biblio/91-9780511055669-0
2. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-80748129.html
3. ^ Peter Scott (Jan 2002). "Inequality and Christian Ethics". Theology Today. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3664/is_200201/ai_n9021474/. 

External links

• Official Website
• Curriculum Vitae
• University of Richmond
• The Pluralism Project, Harvard University
• International Leadership Association
• With God on All Sides: Leadership in a Devout and Diverse America, BookTV

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